How an obsession can become a career

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Four people describe how their childhood obsession became the blueprint for a career – and yes, one of them is a train driver

I met an established garden designer the other day who loved and valued his job but had fallen into it by chance. As a young man he vaguely thought he might become an actor but, out of work, his brother asked, if he had nothing better to do, whether he might dig his flowerbeds. He did, and then his brother’s friend asked him the same thing. And in turn a friend of his. A career was born.

Many people still don’t know what they want to do when they leave school or university, are channelled into a particular job through